America is taking on China in the race to the bottom of the sea, hoping that new mining techniques will help break Beijing’s ...

Defense contractor Raytheon announced it conducted the first untethered, semi-autonomous tests of the Barracuda sea mine ...

Donald Trump is making headlines. The greatest treasure of all time has just been discovered on the ocean floor, and the US ...

Chinese research ships are studying the seas for science and resources, but the data they gather could also be useful in a ...

Company received a major boost in April when Trump issued an executive order asserting America’s right to mine beneath the ...

In conjunction with the launch of its brand-new Mariner XL ROV, Deep Ocean Search (DOS) Ltd entered a Memorandum of ...

The deep sea has a relatively stable sound velocity distribution. Based on the acoustic characteristics of reliable channels, this paper presents a method for estimating the depth of underwater ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

A new deep-sea device developed by China has caught the world’s attention. The China Ship Scientific Research Centre (CSSRC) ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. On ...

The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) recently announced rule changes that would accelerate deep-sea mining in ...

The initiative, led by a government-backed project, aims to reduce reliance on imports and strengthen national security.